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Yeah, it wrings about as much is possible out of that Stan theme. And I love its arrangement of the Circus, and the way A Pirate I Was Meant To Be sneaks in as the intro to the SCUMM Bar. The whole point of that soundtrack is to retcon the Curse feeling back into Monkey 1 and it does a lovely job of it.

Yes, Stan’s theme “Cursed” style really does sound like it belongs. Great work by @AndywinXp !

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Surely someone called it earlier in the thread.

Wow in the original game the back of the store, including the shopkeeper’s safe, took up the same place as the alley. (The shopkeeper contained the portal to big whoop all along, if Guybrush had just interrogated the contents of the safe further…)

Yeah, it’s great! I had so much fun with it. Haven’t played the post-game content yet, I’m kind of saving it for a rainy day. But the whole story was fun, platforming was constantly engaging, and it looked great. Can’t believe we got a Psychonauts 2 and it was great.

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With the wonky handmade logo! Seems like that was never used officially - it was in the site metadata when they put the page up, but never actually appeared. One for the archives.

As far as I know, they were added by the team that did the CD-ROM edition, which was shortly after the main game and VGA upres were done. The Stan theme and the extension of the main themes weren’t done by Land.

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Yeah I doubt it has anything to do with likeness rights, and everything to do with them wanting their own character designs and style for the SE.

Carla, Smirk, Elaine all get them, and Meathook’s scene has a closeup dedicated to it but it’s Guybrush. So many of the main Part 1 puzzle chains have a closeup, but you’re right that they disappear after that until the end of the game. Maybe they decided it wasn’t worth the disk space (That’s one reason why the LeChuck closeups were cut from Monkey 2.) but liked what they’d done so far and kept them?

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And Monkey Island 7 is a Cap’n Crunch crossover.

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Next month is Flamber, the 37 day long month, so maybe they’re onto something.

WOW wild take. I love the island hopping. It is definitely less good on replays than it is when you first play the game, but on my first playthrough, which is my most memorable one, the world felt huge and full of places containing secrets. That fantasy erases once you know the whole locale, so I fully get this opinion, but I still like it!

That was likely Mark Darin! I didn’t write any of Tales, or any game

I played 2 before 1, so I had a similar experience to @BaronGrackle, where for me certain events were “foreshadowed” and made to seem hugely epic, or were alluded to in hushed tones and shrouded in mystery, or offered widows into relationships I only knew the end of. And of course the door to the alley, a place I’d never been but knew was important and eerie just from how it was treated. It made finally going back and playing 1 a totally different experience than I imagine it would have been if the order was flipped, but still a great and unforgettable one. Working on Tales in this context is something I’d probably need to sit down and think on to do properly, so I will wait before trying to write that up.

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Hi, just here to say that is an awesome post.

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Update: Apparently this is not the original but is still rare, even if it’s just a print: It was a large format print made for Telltale’s office lobby. I don’t know that it’s worth 1-5000 dollars though. Anyone could blow up a print for their house and it would be functionally the same. You’d have to really care that it’s telltale office ephemera.

I doubt Steve painted it that big, and I think the original had far more space around it where the painting ran off outside the cropped bounds. But it’s been a long time since I saw that thing. I wonder if this is a somehow-never-folded version of the large print included in some European retail editions?